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Archive for August, 2011

So, here’s a scary thought – apparently anyone who knows how to use Google FTP Search can potentially find unsecure FTP sites that may contain personal and/or sensitive information about individuals, as some hackers did recently when they extracted 43,000 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Biggest news in online privacy today (subjective judgment) is that among a couple of changes Facebook announced yesterday was new privacy controls, which allegedly will include moving some of the privacy controls currently housed under Settings into users’ home feeds […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Perhaps you remember the whole Apple iOS tracking snafu that came to light not long ago, in which Apple’s iOS devices were “tracking” users locations by default. Well, so do approximately 26,000+ South Koreans, who are suing Apple for emotional […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Might as well start with the non-hacker news, because a) we feel like that’s all we talk about anymore, and b) frankly, this stuff is just as, if not more interesting (subjective judgment, but still). Anyway… First, the mobile app […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Man, this is a ballsy move, even for Facebook, but apparently recently the network started scanning your phone for your friends numbers and “adding them to its online database” in order to “help you find contacts”…and if you want to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Might as well start with an update on something we mentioned the other day – so, you may remember one of the latest moves in Anonymous’ all out offensive against the digital world was knocking out the Syrian Ministry of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Paying off on the statement it made last week saying it was not afraid of authorities despite the recent rash of arrests, one of the hacking group Anonymous’ latest capers apparently was hacking “70 some” rural law enforcement websites, and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

So, obviously there’s going to be a significant portion of internet users who either don’t care or don’t realize companies can follow their digital behaviors in order to serve them more relevant ads. But, as “the technology provider to the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Just in case you want to put a face to a name – I give you (well, Gizmodo does, at the link following this description) former LulzSec “spokesman” (and I use the “man” part of that loosely) Topiary, on whose […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

So, obviously we can’t go five seconds at this point without hearing something about the hacking group collective Anonymous, or really any hacking group for that matter. And today is certainly no exception. For starters, apparently the group feels it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…